[RsR] Package title

[Peter Filzmoser]

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>"Wst" == Werner Stahel <stahel using stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>>    on Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:25:41 +0100 writes:
> 
> 
>     Wst> Hello Names are always nice to discuss. Let me add a
>     Wst> simple proposal for the name of the package: robust
>     Wst> Since this should be the well maintained collection of
>     Wst> robust methods, I would go for the "generic" name.
> 
> (and Alfio Marazzi agreed with you).
> 
> There is one very good reason against 'robust':
> Insightful's  library(robust) for S-plus.
> 
> Our package will certainly not be a clone, and probably quite
> different in more than respect.  If we chose the same name,
> that would lead to a *lot* of potential user confusion for those
> who use both R and S-plus.
> I'm sorry but I think that "robust" is really already taken in
> the world of S ...

How about "robust-base"? I rather prefer longer abbreviations
than shorter if confusion can be avoided. The advantage is that
we can then also have packages "robust-mva", "robust-glm" etc.,
and it is easy to find all "robust" packages since they are
in alphabetical order.

Peter

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